I am a newbie on the forum and have tried to find the answer to this problem on other areas of the Sony support website to no avail.
I have done 2 menu-based projects successfully using this DVDA s/w (version 4.5d -- Build 107) without a problem, until now. My simple projects are transferring avi files of family 8mm home movies to DVD with simple menus for navigation and scene selection. The avi files are professionally done by a local service via transfer from 8mm film to my portable hard drive. My PC uses XP Pro.
My new project is menu-based as well and allows viewers to choose between 2 avi format movies, each with choices between viewing the entire movie or viewing selected scenes. There are 42 scenes in movie 1 and 26 in movie 2, a total of 68. The timeline displays of each movie show the chapter/scene markers, marker text and start/end points just fine. No problem selecting viewing of the entire movie 1 or movie 2 via menus in preview, and no problem in selecting scenes in movie 1: scene thumbnails and marker text appear just fine, 4/page. The problem comes when I right click on the movie 2 icon and select Insert Scene Selection Menu: these selected scenes in movie 2 appear with the correct thumbnails, but no marker text. The scene selection button properties are being automatically set to "image" instead of "text + image" as in movie 1 scene menus: it's as though the Insert Scene Selection Menu software can't find the movie 2 associated marker text for each scene. Interestingly, the thumbnails for each movie 2 scene are correct.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help greatly appreciated.
I have done 2 menu-based projects successfully using this DVDA s/w (version 4.5d -- Build 107) without a problem, until now. My simple projects are transferring avi files of family 8mm home movies to DVD with simple menus for navigation and scene selection. The avi files are professionally done by a local service via transfer from 8mm film to my portable hard drive. My PC uses XP Pro.
My new project is menu-based as well and allows viewers to choose between 2 avi format movies, each with choices between viewing the entire movie or viewing selected scenes. There are 42 scenes in movie 1 and 26 in movie 2, a total of 68. The timeline displays of each movie show the chapter/scene markers, marker text and start/end points just fine. No problem selecting viewing of the entire movie 1 or movie 2 via menus in preview, and no problem in selecting scenes in movie 1: scene thumbnails and marker text appear just fine, 4/page. The problem comes when I right click on the movie 2 icon and select Insert Scene Selection Menu: these selected scenes in movie 2 appear with the correct thumbnails, but no marker text. The scene selection button properties are being automatically set to "image" instead of "text + image" as in movie 1 scene menus: it's as though the Insert Scene Selection Menu software can't find the movie 2 associated marker text for each scene. Interestingly, the thumbnails for each movie 2 scene are correct.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help greatly appreciated.